US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for security association enabling make-before-break-roaming (MBBR)" (New York, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,388, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for security association enabling make-before-break-roaming (MBBR)" was invented by Stephen M Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.), Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas) and Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for generating a pairwise transient key security association (PTKSA) by: providing a first media access control (MAC) address that is shared by multiple access points (APs), the first MAC address corresponding to an infrastructure comprising the multiple APs, and each AP of...